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Filets de Lapin as at Barcelona

From Georgiana Hill, The gourmet’s guide to rabbit cooking, by an old epicure (1859):
Take the fillets from a fine young Ostend rabbit (by the fillet is meant the thick part of the thigh, separated from the bone) cut the meat into slices, round ways, of about three-quarters of an inch thick; let them soak in [...]

Why Spain must win tonight

The geopolitical consequences of a German victory don’t bear thinking about.

1 comment, including looby: Phew!

Nick Clegg’s Spanish

Includes several therapeutic tongue-twisters.

3 comments, including “el Primo”: What are you talking about? The R in "problema" is not supposed to be dropped in any non-rhotic acce

J in Catalan Spanish

Immortalised in the “disastrous cowboy” genre of jokes.

Another way of screwing ADSL salesfolk

If using cold calls as a free sex chat service doesn’t stop the bastards, you could always try A’s dad’s technique: “Internet? Yep, I’ve heard of that and could maybe use it, but could you just spend a few minutes explaining what it is?” And then walk away.

2 comments, including Colin: I may have mentioned that I find it quite effective to tell them I died the previous day.

Spanish vice-premier MarĂ­a Teresa FernĂĄndez de la Vega, laser-eyed owl-bat bird?(Photo CC AgĂȘncia Brasil via Wikimedia Commons.)

ÂĄTĂș imitas tan bien a los animales! ÂżNo serĂĄs … aztor?

A phonological curiosity from coastal Cantabria, with speculation as to the supernatural powers of MarĂ­a Teresa FernĂĄndez de la Vega.

2 comments, including Javier: Looks like someone has theorized on that too: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/10/paper1794.pdf I find

Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay påjaros ocaño

An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.

Catalan government insolvent, up $hit creek, etc etc

But leaking the news just after the Mavi Marmara incident meant hardly anyone noticed.

5 comments, including lost: I was shocked at how governments here use accounts payable as free loans. If governments pay on time

Paradise and town-planning

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.

1 comment, including A Nun: Sounds like a completely unjustifiable ethnic supertax to me. But still probably better than genocid

Classifying mussels / muscles

Barcelona trading practices, builder’s crack-fish and the great Pacific birdshit war.

Commental asylum

Das Scroll und Scream Kitschin' Kabinett des Dr Kalebeul

More stuff

Visitors book

  • Brer Rabid: "pseudo-historic revisionism, ... pack of lies and bullshit, ... Catalanophobe resentment of Spanish nationalism (past and present) apologist"
  • Don Colin: "gnomic"
  • The Pox: "Franco's Little Helper"
  • La Vanguardia wonders whether Kalebeul is a CIA operation
  • Mark Liberman: "a treat"
  • Significant other: "What was that weirdo on about? What blog?"

Incoming

  • Back when referrer spam generated by Jared Croslow's Deep Link Engine is fixed

Shorts

Bikini vs vikini

Spelling controversies to overtake music/games/dating/porn as biggest online revenue generator?

Someone with an interest in these things says that La Vanguardia has censored some of the sexist comments accompanying this cheesy swimsuit photo but, despite an alert from the lusty, hasn’t fixed the “v” in the caption, “Unas jĂłvenes pasean por Salou en vikini”. Spelling “mistakes” -> reader interest -> revenues, presumably.

2 comments, including Juan Kerr: First they van the vurka, now this. Sounds like tit-for-tat to me.

Sp

Someone in Logroño’s been doing a bit of self-promotion on Wikipedia:

La Universidad Internacional de La Rioja tiene motivos para ser considerada la Univesidad en Internet.

Damn, damn, damn.

On this day

Barcelona

  • July 31 1568 RecĂ­bese por un anĂłnimo la noticia de que el primogĂ©nito de Felipe II estaba sin esperanzas de vida.
  • July 31 1808 On the 31st of July the ImpĂ©rieuse silenced, and Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French,...
  • July 31 1848 En la iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Sra. de Belen que fue de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesus, se celebra con toda solemnidad, la fiesta de san Ignacio de Loyola. Las religiosas de la Enseñanza de la misma Ăłrden tributan tambien ĂĄ este fundador solemnes cultos.
  • July 31 1909 APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
    HENRY DALMASES. July 31, 1909, Saturday I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanish Eastern points are classed as ma...
  • July 31 1909 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow — Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, by Way of the French Frontier, July 31...
  • July 31 1909 AMERICANS IN BARCELONA.; Feared Two Women Cousins of Mrs. Lemoine, the Actress, Are Victims.
  • July 31 1926 Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he “received an enthusias...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

    Nothing doing.

Catholic hagiography

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